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title: Eh sed down day an mek ehself saterfy, an duh wait topper de rain. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh sed down day an mek ehself saterfy, an duh wait topper de rain. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 76

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Eh sed down day an mek ehself saterfy, an duh wait topper de rain.

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**What happens:** s down · **To what, where:** Eh

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:11:76
# text = Eh sed down day an mek ehself saterfy, an duh wait topper de rain.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	sed	s	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	ehself	ehself	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	saterfy	saterfy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	duh	duh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	topper	topper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	compound	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **s down** | participle · passive |  | Eh |  |  | day | a mek ehself saterfy *obj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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